Zakk_Sabbath

Your post actually makes me realize the best thing for a potential heel Scorp would actually probably be Spears' spot in FTR. Or here's one: how about Cody gets pissed off at Arn for putting the 4 finger stamp of approval on FTR, and then Arn turns on Cody and becomes Scorpio's coach instead. Now he's got both a talker and a built in issue.

I figured the story would be that Scorp beats a weakened Darby from the street fight. But @Jijimakes a great point, we haven't had that full blown turn yet. So now I'm thinking Darby goes over here "against the odds," and Scorpio does the whole "snap after the loss" thing, complete with Jericho chair tantrum, leading to our rematch

I mean... Sting, The Giant, Jericho, Christian, Taz, Arn, Tully, Jake... these guys were not signed for the people already watching, dude.

Here I am pissed cause I wanted Kenny's shirt, damn...

Wonder who the backup plan was. That's... worrying.

It's definitely fine if you don't like the booking, cause that's a totally subjective matter of taste and I would never begrudge you that, but I'm talking about the technical snafu with the explosives. No amount of kick ass ring work can overcome something like that, it just needs to be learned from.

I actually have to go back and watch Bucks/Circle, I only caught the finish because for some reason BR Live wouldn't let me order on my phone or Xbox, I had to get the Roku set up

AEW will be fine. Ive touched on it before, but I think it's a little bit of PTSD from WWE being the only game in town for 20 years. Any misfire like this for a young company, you wonder if it's going to be the first of 1000 cuts

I wonder if they originally planned to have the deathmatch in TIAA and the NFL said "Uh, no?" Maybe the fire marshal limited what they could do in there? FWIW, Dailys Place has a fabric ceiling. Maybe the concern was anything larger could have gotten really bad, really quick... Just trying to make sense of this thing for the last three days

Who doesn't test this kind of thing before hand?????????????????????????????????

Agree on the first three, but I figured Punk was the "not who we think." Foley could be fun as a manager, but if it's him, they have to keep him the hell away from taking bumps and any kind of authority figure role.

I'm still in the camp of Angle or Christian, but my girlfriend just floated the idea of Kane, not sure what his status is nowadays

I can't remember if I said this already or not, but I obviously retract my backing of the idea it's a non-wrestler after seeing that

It's funny you say that - when I was reading the thread last night before bed, I thought about Trish Stratus giving someone advice on Tough Enough back in the day for blowing a kip up - "If you can't do it, don't do it."

The only person I've ever caught doing that super obviously is Ricochet @thee Reverend Axl FutureI remember reading the kickpad rumor in '99 but I never got confirmation, and it's bothered me for years!

Angle had a Twitter post quite some time ago where he was training and looked way better than he did on WWE TV last, so if it's him, I'm going to reserve all judgment until I see him wrestle. He said the arthritis issues were from inactivity, so maybe it'll be a short but consistently weekly run

I think he had a heart issue of some kind during a Powerrr taping just before the pandemic, so even if he could go, he may be done in the ring

@Technico SupportCompletely understand what you're saying and it's a great post. I think I often find myself on the other side of your argument here, so I just wanted to offer this: I think theres a few different things confluencing here. 1) The desire for wrestling to be a cool, mainstream thing like it was in the late '90s 2) the very natural, human, non-wrestling-specific idea of "I want more people to like the things I like" 3) WWE has been the only game in town for two decades on any sort of national scale (Edit: Want to shout @Jijihere for making this point while I was typing) 4) Social media - Everyone thinks they're a journalist now and knows the business end more than anyone else.

A fleeting high guy thought I want to document in case I'm somehow right: X-Pac

I don't see Booker coming in due to the Bad Bunny video, no way he isn't locked into a Legends deal. Though I guess AEW signing him would certainly be an interesting way of trying to capitalize on that. Imagine being WWE, and having this mainstream rapper on your roster, and you can't even play his new hit video because the star is under contract to the competition. Stupid as fuck, ultra-petty, waste of money, yes, but I can't honestly say it wouldn't be kinda delicious.

My GOD do we still have that how to cut a fucking promo 101 thread?? Absolute fire

@Zimbra Funny you posted this - was playing 2K19 the other night with my lady, and we discussed whether or not "Blue eyed with a lot of soul" would fly nowadays

I was also sorely disappointed by this. I've always wondered why Slayer and Metallica dropped him for his engineer Greg Fidelman instead. Maybe just cost at the end of the day, but I was hoping for some tea.

Wondering if they somehow tie Spears joining FTR to when he "quit" in that sit-down interview, or if that's just gonna be kinda quietly retconned into the night

I have a very strong feeling this whole thing ends up getting parlayed into a Starks/Darby singles match for the TNT title, we may not be done hearing it yet